Last Read of 2017: Clockwork or All Wound Up by Philip Pullman

"And once you've wound up a clock, there's something frightful in the way it keeps on going at its own relentless pace. Its hands move steadily round the dial as if they had a mind of their own. Tick, tock, tick, tock!"A Very Happy 2018 to all.Oh and the book: Deliciously creepy.*First Line: In the …

Initial Impressions: Malice by Keigo Higashino

I feel that Japanese writer Keigo Higashino is one of the finest writers of mysteries. First I readThe Devotion of Suspect X and marvelled at his ingenuity. Then came Salvation of a Saint which I found to be even better than Devotion and now I have read Malice which is a fantastic mystery, a police …

Austen in August: Her Wit and Wisdom

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.I read an abridged version of Pride and Prejudice in school and fell in love with it. Darcy was the handsome, misunderstood hero, Elizabeth, the confident heroine; Jane and Bingley were …